Organizational Design in Social Business
The effectiveness of an Organizational Design exercise depends on the fit of process, structure and behaviour that make up the organization and how they are aligned with both existing and desired future capabilities.
Numbers, Volume 38 – Christmas Leftovers Edition
Web consumption way up, iPhone vs. Android, regional community, bad ERP, & more.
Fixing IT in the cloud computing era
The reality of cloud computing as it exists today already offers significant potential to IT departments that want to cut costs, lighten their infrastructure footprint, and adopt agile new technologies. Whether it’s private clouds or public ones, all signs point towards it being one of the top new approaches for enterprise IT for 2010. It’s [...]
When Airline Spend Really Matters: Measuring Roaches in Food as a Defect Rate
Having caught a good many United flights out of Denver
over the years, it gave my stomach pause to learn that one of
my hometown airline’s food caterers, LSG Sky Chefs, has been warned by the FDA to clean up its roach problem. While
some — …
Tim Bray’s Enterprise 2.0 conundrum
How does one create small systems that address similar requirements as large ones? It’s a basic matter we need to consider.
SF Looks to Unleash Entrepreneurs, Maybe
Image by azizk via Flickr This is the message that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is sending: “This legislation is trying to eliminate from the books the complete, unnecessary nickeling-and-diming of our business entrepreneurs during our worst economic recession since the Great Depression,” Chiu said. [From S.F.'s bid to wipe out some extra business [...]
BMC Buys Phurnace – Quick Analysis
BMC is buying a what seems to be a good Java infrastructure (read: the middle-ware & application layer), model-driven automation and management tool that’ll augment their existing Blade Logic automation portfolio.
Government Supplier Diversity Programs Go Global — Just What the UK Does Not Need
In the US, nearly everyone with enough knowledge, intelligence, and open-mindedness to dig below the surface of Federal reporting around supply
diversity recognizes the farce that the whole charade has become. Unlike
private-sector supplier-diver…
Salesforce shows the future of enterprise collaboration – but have they got the branding right?
A month ago on Monday 7 December I was sitting in the London version of the CloudForce2 Partner Summit, and then stricken by a virus overnight, I watched Marc Benioff livestreamed for the 2 hours and 15 minutes of his keynote in the general customer session on the following day. It sounds like he did [...]
Panaya – A different kind of ERP third party maintenance provider
ERP update costs got your firm stuck on old releases? Panaya may have cloud-based way to help your firm stay current in a less costly and less risky manner.
